Tag: top-stories
2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 74 (Strictly) World Premiere Predictions!
It's not the opener. It's not the closer. But today the Toronto International Film Festival announced that Taika Waititi's long-gestating Next Goal Wins ...
Action!: Marie Monge, Ugo Bienvenu & Rocco Labbé Receive CNC Support
The Cineuropa folks have highlight three action-genre projects we'll now be keeping tabs on and which have benefitted from some coin from the CNC...
Split Level: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Lead Ensemble in New Honoré Film
Christophe Honoré has landed quite the cast for his next feature film. Re-teaming with daughter-mother team of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Honoré also...
Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “La Tour de glace”
ARTE France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for...
Seven Day Itch: Alicia Vikander & Elizabeth Olsen Board Fleur Fortuné’s “The Assessment”
A-list actresses Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen will be teaming on the feature film debut by a filmmaker who (it was only a matter...
Body Heat: Gabriel Mascaro Sets Sail on Fourth Fiction Feature
August Winds (2014), Neon Bull (2015) and Divine Love (2019) filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro has began production on his fourth fiction feature film in his...
Summer Boy: Christophe Honoré Sets Up New Feature Film in Paris
We can mark down a new feature film from Christophe Honoré for the 2024 calendar as the Paris-based filmmaker is setting up shop for...
Gentleman’s Club: Melanie Laurent Finds Prized Possessions in “Sulak”
After teaming with the French filmmaker with The Mad Women’s Ball (Le bal des folles) a TIFF selection in 2021, Amazon Prime Video France...
Crash & Learn: Thierry de Peretti Buckles Up for “À son image”
A pandemic hiccup might have slightly pushed back the production start date (we mentioned the project when it got a leg up via the...
Season’s Fleetings: Tyler Taormina Completes “Long Island on Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point”
We'll be getting some American indie holiday cheer via Ham on Rye / and the just released Happer's Comet helmer Tyler Taormina sometime next...
Bounty Hunted: Nick Rowland Sets “She Rides Shotgun” with Taron Egerton
Nick Rowland - the British filmmaker who broke big at TIFF with the Barry Keoghan and Cosmo Jarvis starring Calm with Horses (the alternative...
Arte France Cinéma Gets Behind Jonathan Millet, Francesca Comencini & Larrieu Bros.
Arte France Cinéma have come onboard in a co-producer capacity for upcoming projects by Jonathan Millet, veteran Italian filmmaker Francesca Comencini and the Larrieu...
Suck Your Blood: Antonin Peretjatko Lands Laure Calamy & Vimala Pons for “Vade retro”
French filmmaker Antonin Peretjatko is set to sink his teeth into his fourth feature film and he lassoed some alumni for Vade retro (formerly...
Criterion Collection: Imitation of Life (1934) | Blu-ray Review
One need only look at the marketing strategy for 1934’s Imitation of Life to see how woefully inept Hollywood was (and in many ways,...
Asteroid City | Review
The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments
Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...
Nobody’s Hero (Viens je t’emmène) | Review
We Don’t Need Another Hero: Guiraudie Gets Kooky in Political Comedy of Errors
Alain Guiraudie migrates from rural perversity to urban calamity in the comically...
Day for Night: Production Begins on Tolga Karacelik’s “Shallow Tale” with Steve Buscemi
Production has officially begun on Tolga Karacelik's fourth feature film. Following 2018's Sundance/Rotterdam preemed Butterflies - winner of the Grand Jury Prize (Ruben Östlund...
A Therapist’s Therapist: Mary Bronstein Set to Direct “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
More than a dozen years (plus some change) since she premiered her feature debut Yeast (a 2008 SXSW Film Festival selection), Mary Bronstein is...
Tunnel Vision: Calvin Lee Reeder Sees Into the Future with “The A-Frame”
It'll be a full decade between features (he was nonetheless busy directing tons of shorts including under 5-minute masterpiece "The Procedure" (a 2016 Sundance...
Shut Up and Direct: Painter Titus Kaphar Moves Behind the Camera with “Exhibiting Forgiveness”
Moving from the paintbrush to behind the camera, Titus Kaphar the "painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include the African-American subject"...
Scarlet (L’Envol) | Review
Come Sail Away: Marcello Runs Aground in Muddled Adaptation
Pietro Marcello returns to literature for inspiration in his third narrative feature (and French language debut),...
Shepherd’s High: Sophie Deraspe Currently Filming “Berger” with Félix-Antoine Duval
French Canadian filmmaker Sophie Deraspe is currently taking big gulps of the French Alps for her sixth feature film currently in production. Saint-Narcisse thesp...
Nursing the Wound: Payal Kapadia Embarks on Roadtrip for “All We Imagine As Light”
A project we've earmarked for a possible Cannes Film Festival showcase next year, Payal Kapadia's fiction debut is set to move into production shortly....
Father Figure: Anders Danielsen Lie & Woody Norman Find a Cabin in Vladimir de Fontenay’s “Sukkwan Island”
After focusing on the rift between single mother and young child in his Directors' Fortnight selected sophomore feature Mobile Homes (2017), Vladimir de Fontenay...
Benoît Magimel is a Slave to the Trade: Simon Moutaïrou Begins Production on “Ni chaînes ni maîtres”
He managed to "outdo" his 2022 Cannes experience of Revoir Paris and Albert Serra's masterwork Pacifiction, with a three film presence on the croisette...
Tricolour Fourth: Monia Chokri Moves to France for Her Next Feature
Another small blurb in the Le film français provides us with an update on what is in the works for Monia Chokri. She might...
Leos Carax Currently Lensing “C’est pas moi” & Arnaud Desplechin Prepping “Spectateurs”
A small blurb in the Le film français profiling Charles Gillibert (and his prod company CG Cinéma) and the multi-faceted Les Films du Losange...
Interview: Faouzi Bensaïdi – Déserts
The very first image we find in Déserts informs the viewer that we need directions and that its the elements that have a stronger...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Interview: Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake
Selected for the Directors' Fortnight in 2022, Charlotte Le Bon's assured directorial debut was among the highlights of the section and since its launch...
Past Lives | Review
Tell Me That You Love Me, Nora Moon: Song Explores Destiny and Longing in Potent Debut
Romance cut short before it reaches full bloom is...
Lynch/Oz | Review
Follow the Celluloid Road: Philippe Explores the Magnificent Ozsessions of David Lynch
The next best thing to a new David Lynch project has to be...
Dude (Looks Like A Lady): Sandra Hüller Toplines Markus Schleinzer’s Gender Bender “Rose”
Austrian filmmaker (and a supporting player on a slew of recent films) Markus Schleinzer is finally getting back into the director's chair and he...
Padre Pio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Ferrara Explore Infamous Saint with Guerrilla Branded Biopic
Like many of Abel Ferrara’s projects hobbled by various production issues,...
Falcon Lake | Review
Baptism by Water: Unrequited Longing & Fear Found in Le Bon's Simmering Debut
In a perfect swirl of the uninitiated and inhibition, in her directorial...
Unclenching the Fists | Review
So Daddy, I’m Finally Through: Kovalenko Explores Familial Dysfunction in Rural Melodrama
The suppression of women by the heteropatriarchy is tale as ancient as civilization,...
2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera & Anatomy of a Fall Top Grid
It was hovering around the 4.0 average and would settle for a final 3.9 grade and never let go of the top spot in...
Ken Loach’s The Old Oak – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
Will Ken Loach three-peat with what could be his last-ever feature? This is the question that Thierry Frémaux put forth and perhaps the best...
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
A Cannes mainstay since her humble beginnings in the Directors’ Fortnight section with Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher quickly ascended to comp-worthy status with the...
Catherine Breillat’s L’Été dernier (Last Summer) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
Almost a full decade away from the camera since, Catherine Breillat returns to the competition with L'Été dernier (Last Summer). This is her second...
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
A notable year for the New German Cinema filmmaker with two (or three if you include Chambre 999) films in Cannes with docu item...
Nanni Moretti’s Il sol dell’avvenire – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Palme d’Or winner (The Son’s Room in 2001) Nanni Moretti makes another trip to the competition with an ode to cinema (and Martin Scorsese's...
Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Winner of the Camera d'Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent of Green Papaya back in 1993, while he...
Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
If You Don’t Die Today: Moretti Can’t Find the Rhythm in Musical Delusion
To say the latest film from Nanni Moretti, Il sol dell'avvenire (A Brighter...
Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama
Virginie Efira continues to explore the arduous spectrum of contemporary motherhood in her latest film,...
Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
If we don't count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for the maestro. The Traitor was in competition in...
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Technically speaking the great American filmmaker Wes Anderson has now appeared in the Cannes competition with three titles - opening the '12 edition with...
Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
She officially graduated to the main competition section in Cannes with Little Joe in 2019 she now cements her status there with her latest...
Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum
Marco Bellocchio has lost none of his flair nor his energetic zest in his latest...
Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Following Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Lights in the Dusk (2006), and 2011's Le Havre, Finland's favorite auteur Aki Kaurismäki...
